New to assessment, or want to learn advanced techniques to collect more meaningful assessment data? The Office of Assessment is hosting several upcoming workshops covering concepts and tools that can be used to effectively and efficiently improve student learning.

The workshops are free and open to all faculty, staff, and graduate students. No registration is required.

Introduction to Student Learning Assessment

For those new to assessment or wanting brush up on their basic concepts and skills. This workshop will cover the basics of assessment, from writing learning outcomes, to collecting data, to using assessment for improvement.

Oct 11, 2:30-3:30, 113 Leadership Studies

Oct 12, 10:30-11:30, 112 Leadership Studies

Using Canvas for Assessment

For faculty, staff, or program coordinators wanting to streamline the data collection process, this workshop will cover the assessment features of Canvas. Using these features can make assessment data collection efficient and easy for faculty and programs. Data collected from canvas can also be displayed in a dashboard.

Oct 4, 2:30-3:30, 113 Leadership Studies

Oct 5, 10:30-11:30, 112 Leadership Studies

Using Qualtrics for Assessment

For programs, faculty, and staff needing to collect assessment data outside of the classroom, the Qualtrics survey system provides a diverse set of tools for programs to collect assessment data from on and off-campus raters. This workshop will cover tips and tricks to make Qualtrics useful for assessment.

Canvas has immense capabilities that can reduce the amount of time spent on the process of assessment. The Office of Assessment can help programs implement these new tools and design custom reports that meet the program’s needs. The custom reports works to enhance the data and act as an approachable deliverable to departments, faculty and programs.

An earlier post presented a conceptual overview of using Canvas Outcomes scores in PowerBI. Today, we are presenting a four-part, step-by-step walkthrough detailing how to create a direct assessment dashboard/report in PowerBI. These videos present a variety of options for each step and are meant to be adapted to fit each user’s needs.

The first video in the series covers the creation of the Fact Table using outcomes data exported from Canvas.